Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This blood and tissue loss is called menstruation and the day that this menstrual flow starts is traditionally the first day of the menstrual cycle . |
2 | Though understanding is perhaps the first step . |
3 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
4 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
5 | In either case , the line thus calculated is only a first approximation , and will be tuned up , as we shall see in the next section . |
6 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
7 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
8 | I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper , then a subaltern , but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling . |
9 | He had been right the first time . |